APUSH Domestic Side

By rrabenstine

  • G.I. Bill passed

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    BABY BOOM

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    Harry S. Truman's Presidency

  • Truman enacts the creation of the Loyalty Review Board

  • Jackie Robinson is the first African American baseball player

  • Taft Hartley Act Passed

  • Blacklists are created

  • Truman abolishes racial discrimination in the army

  • Truman's Fair Deal Policy announced

  • Alger HIss convicted of perjury

  • McCarthy announces that he has a list of known communists in the State Department

  • The McCarran Internal Security Act was passed

  • Rosenberg Trials Begin

  • Catcher in the Rye is published

  • The McCarran-Walter Act

  • Richard Nixon delivers the Checkers Speech to save himself from humiliation

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency

  • Playboy's first issue

  • McCarthy Investigates army for communists (Army-McCarthy hearings)

  • Brown vs. Board of Education decision that "seperate but equal" is unconstitutional

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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Park refuses to give up her seat on Montgomery City bus

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    Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  • Elvis releases his first single "Heartbreak Hotel"

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded for nonviolence

  • Little Rock Nine goes to Central High

  • NASA founded

  • Students for a Democtatic Society founded

  • Greensboro sit-ins

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed for nonviolent immediate change

  • Kennedy speaks of America entering the New Frontier

  • Kennedy's speech "Ask not what your country can do for you- aks what you can do for your country"

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    John F. Kennedy's Presidency

  • Peace Corps founded

  • Yuri Gagarin goes to spacce

  • Freedom Rides begin

  • United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez founded

  • John Glenn orbits the earth

  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson comes out warning about incesticides

  • Feminine Mystique Published

  • March On Washington (Civil Rights)

  • MLK's "I have a dream" speech

  • Kennedy Assasinated

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    Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency

  • Warren Comission is formed to investigate Kennedy assasination

  • VISTA created

  • The Free Speech Movement begins

  • Johnson Pushes through Kennedy's tax cut

  • Johnson's Great Society Speech

  • Civil Right's Act of 1964

  • Head Start Created

  • MLK's march on Selma

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Comission created

  • Medicare signed by Johnson

  • Medicaid signed by Johnson

  • The Voting Rights of 1965

  • Watts Riots in LA for civil rightss

  • THe Department of Housing and Urban Development formed

  • National Organization for Women Founded

  • Black Panther Party founded

  • MLK assasination

  • Robert Kennedy Assasination

  • American Indian Movement founded

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    Richard M. Nixon's Presidency

  • Woodstock Music Festival

  • Kent State University massacre

  • Hard Hat Riot (workers march in New York city for the War)

  • Jackson State University Killings

  • Nixon Freezes prices and wages for economic stabilization

  • Conspirators sneak into the Democratic National Committee headquarters

  • Watergate Scandal starts

  • Roe Vs. Wade legalizes abortion

  • Wounded Knee legal Battle started

  • Vice President Spiro Agnew Resigns

  • Nixon resigns

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    Gerald R. Ford's Presidency

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    Jimmy Carter's Presidency

  • COLD WINTER: ENERGY CRISIS

  • Love Canal is discovered: Enviornmental issues mount.

  • National Energy Act is passed

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    Ronald Reagan's Presidency

  • The first Space Shuttle is launched

  • Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman Supreme Court Justice

  • Reagan is re-elected

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986 drops federal taxes down

  • "Black Monday" (stocks fall nearly 20 percent on average)